Follow us

Contemporary artists Harold Offeh and Eloise Calandre collaborate to explore concepts of portraiture and its capacity to challenge and provoke. Using the primary mediums of popular culture - photography and video - Offeh and Calandre devise a series of three one-off performances, broadcast live. Tune in at 13:00, 15:00 and 17:00 GMT on Friday 3 February 2012 to watch the action.

Share this page

About

Contemporary artists Harold Offeh and Eloise Calandre collaborated to explore concepts of portraiture and its capacity to challenge and provoke in a series of three one-off performances collectively titled In Your Face: I See Myself, broadcast live throughout 3 February 2012.

1. (broadcast from 13:00 GMT) The first performance plays with the concept of this gesture of friendship and approval and transforming it to a painful endurance test.

2. (broadcast from 15:00 GMT) The second film builds on the provocative theme of the latter, exploring the potentials and possibilities of facial expression and using Calandre's own face as a screen for a re-projection of her features.

3. (broadcast from 17:00 GMT) The third broadcast is an expansion of Offeh's existing series, Covers, where the artist uses himself as the key figure in a recreation of the cover of The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street. The artist appears as '3Ball Charlie', a thirties freakshow performer.

By using the primary mediums of popular culture - photography and video - Offeh and Calandre's performances will explore portraiture in a new way, unravelling complex ideas of race, identity and desire.

These unique performances were originally broadcast on Friday 3 February 2012 at 13:00 GMT, 15:00 GMT and 17:00 GMT.